Alicia Dussan

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Alicia Dussán de Reichel-Dolmatoff , (born October 16, 1920 in Bogotá , Colombia ) is the first female anthropologist in Colombia.

Alicia Dussán is a recognized lecturer, researcher and defender of Colombia's cultural and ethnic diversity. She was one of the first women to study at a university in Colombia. Alicia Dussán is a pioneer in gender research in Colombia's Caribbean region. In 2017 she is the only female anthropologist at the Spanish Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences ( Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales ).

biography

Alicia Dussán initially enrolled in law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia , but switched to anthropology after just one year. She belonged to the first generation of students at the National Institute for Ethnology ( Spanish Instituto Etnológico Nacional ), through which ethnology was institutionalized in Colombia. From a young age she had shown an interest in archeology and anthropology. In a few years she became an experienced field researcher.

Alicia Dussán became the leading anthropologist of her time in the fields of urban, scientific, applied and medical anthropology. She was also a pioneer in the field of gender studies. However, she often confronted her personal and academic life with prejudice, rivalries and misunderstandings. In 1963 Alicia Dussán worked as a consultant for the Gold Museum of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia ( Museo del Oro in Spanish ) in Bogotá. From 1970 to 1973 she headed the Department of Museums and Restoration of the Colombian Cultural Institute ( Spanish Instituto Colombiano de Cultura (Colcultura) ). In 1978 Alicia Dussán was visiting curator of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of California . In 1980 she worked as a research assistant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art .

Alicia Dussán's work went beyond research and teaching. She was politically committed to the recognition and respect of the indigenous territories and the creation of new reserves.

Cooperation with Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

In 1943 Alicia Dussán married the Austrian anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff . They lived a fruitful collaboration until his death in 1994. Alicia Dussán published 23 of her 53 publications with her husband. Her interest in archeology and anthropology led her to the Caribbean coast with her husband. In 1946 the two founded a branch of the National Institute for Ethnology in the Department del Magdalena . Alicia Dussán ran the affiliated Ethnological Museum, while her husband became director of the institute. In 1957, together with Gerardo, she founded the first chair for anthropology in Latin America at the Universidad de Cartagena . In 1963 they founded the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Out of the extensive work of Alicia Dussán and Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, the exploration of a mestizo community in the Departamento del Cesar , the monograph “The People of Aritama” and the discovery of the oldest piece of American ceramics near the Canal del Dique in the Departamento de Bolívar stand out .

Publications

  • Characteristic of the masculine and feminine personalities en Taganga. In: Revista Colombiana de Antropología. 2. Bogotá 1953. pp. 89-103.
  • Practical culinarias en una población mestiza de Colombia. In: Revista de Folklore. 2, Segunda Época. Bogotá 1953, pp. 105-138.
  • Vestido y alimentación como factores de prestigio en una población mestiza de Colombia. In: Actas del XXXI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas. 1. Sao Paulo 1954, pp. 271-280.
  • Crespo: Un nuevo complejo arqueológico del norte de Colombia. In: Revista Colombiana de Antropología. 3. Bogotá 1954, pp. 173-188.
  • Guía de los Museos de Colombia. Colcultura, Bogotá, 1973, p. 141 ff.
  • Some observations on the Prehistoric Goldwork of Colombia. In: E. Berson (Ed.): Precolombian Metallurgy of South America. Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University 1979, pp. 41-52.
  • Education des enfants in un village de Colombie. In: XXXI Revue Internationale of Sciences Sociales. Unesco, Paris 1979 pp. 440-449.
  • Paul Rivett y su epoca. In: Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Bogotá. 15 (59), 1984, pp. 101-106.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ana María Groot de Mahecha: Una historia de vida entre el pasado y el presente de Colombia. Homenaje a Alicia Dussán de Reichel-Dolmatoff . In: Maguaré . tape 26 , no. 1 , 2012, ISSN  2256-5752 , p. 335–338 (Spanish, revistas.unal.edu.co [accessed February 4, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Patricia Tovar: Alicia Dussán. (PDF; 15.4 kB) March 12, 2005, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; Retrieved February 4, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Marisol Gómez Giraldo: Una mujer ¡de pantalones! - Archivo Digital de Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo desde 1.990 . In: El Tiempo . April 5, 2009 (Spanish, eltiempo.com [accessed February 5, 2017]).
  4. ^ Condecoración de Francia a Alicia Dussan de Reichel, Pionera de la Antropología en Colombia. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved February 4, 2017 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Dussan, Alicia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dussán de Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá , Colombia